Red Brown's Boat Home
by Duane McCullough
Title
Red Brown's Boat Home
Artist
Duane McCullough
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Photograph - Canvas Wrap Prints
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Red Brown's Boat Home in Key Largo Filtered.
This image was taken in around 2002 before Red Brown lost his boat to a two foot rain event that sank it just off Duesenbury Creek in Key Largo, Florida. Believed to be over 90 years old, Red Brown used to sail a smaller boat with a red sail around Key Largo for years before building his fiberglass boat that ended up in Dusenbury Creek. Legally grandfathered within living along the mangrove creek shoreline, Red would visit his wife in the local nursing home when he could.
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February 7th, 2013
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Michael Hoard
You are welcome and thanks for the added info. Great looking sail boat, I am sure it has mariner tales to talk about.....
Duane McCullough
Thank you Michael -- The last thing I remember was that some friend paid to have the boat overhauled at a local marina so that Red could move back aboard -- but I never saw the boat again in the creek. As a boat captain and tour guide in upper Florida Bay, I used to go by Reds' boat several times a week to visit a nearby mangrove lagoon and sometimes my guest & I would chat with him a while. I think I remember reading that he and his wife were taken in at a local retirement home some years ago. A quick side story -- I first met Red at a marina in Key Largo in '76 where I was overhauling my 37' Skipjack -- and one morning a wind storm blew over all the framework for this fiberglass shell boat like dominoes. Poor Red, all he could do was to reset the framework in the hot sun and start over.
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